Posts made by Macha

We were playing a game, for work. Big boss decides to email, versus just verbally ask, and the questions were "Who was the lead in..." and then a list of christmas movies to list with the names of actors to match them.

I'm going through the list, and I'm like ... Wonderful life? Jimmy's not on the list!
Etc., etc.
So I Video skype called the big boss, ... and she messed up the sheet. She cut off part of it somehow. -- I had been late opening the email, working on something. So other people had to know, and just... didn't say anything. And yes, this is for a prize.

@zombiegenesis This makes me so sad.

@ganymede Well, what REALLY pissed me off, was the fact they called my male roommate FIRST - before me, to tell him I didn't qualify financially. He is not on any of the application, he is not my husband/partner, he had ZERO right to that call/information, and certainly NOT before me.

@ganymede <.< >.> ... I may have called FHA.

@ganymede At least it's not just me thinking so.

I saw a fellow tenant last night, and she was carrying a baby carrier, and the last time I saw her, she was still in medium bump stage.

"You had the baby! Yay!"
"Yeah, he's five months old!"

"Jesus my understanding of time passing is so, so screwed up."
"Mine too!"

I feel like I've been in a never ending winter.

So today is our gift giving exchange Zoom party at work.
Me being the ball of people pleasing anxiety, knowing how much not getting something you like sucks, seasonal depression - I went hard. I asked multiple people what my recipient likes, and took it and ran with it.

I overspent the guideline, I think, but I blame my ADD for not being able to choose between the candle that donates to animal rescues, and the wine glass that says "Wine and cats, because people suck" . (The feedback I got from everyone, is that she likes wine and cats.)

Then I sent my boss a giftcard to Dunkin', because he's always drinking their coffee like a madman. And my boss is amazing, the best boss I have ever, ever had. He deserved to know, right?

I got my secret santa package thing, and.. well, when you pick it up, it sloshes and feels like a liquor bottle. I told my boss, laughing, and he sounded disappointed.

Then my email went off. He sent me an Amazon gc, telling me he appreciates what I do. I'm currently fighting tears. Honestly the best boss.

@auspice I feel called out.

We're not problem tenants. Rent is on time, we're not noisy, we don't have people in and out (other than door Dash coming to the door, but let's be honest, everyone around here is doing that more these days.).
We just don't cause trouble. We're boring introverts who stay in and play video games and try pinterest recipes.

ETA: They already raised our rent when we renewed our lease, though not a lot. But We're already on the top end of what they want for rent on apartments.com, etc.

@ganymede The sad art is, I love this apartment. Good placement, decent maintenance staff, don't generally have an issue with anyone. No one's overly noisy around here, nothing.

I admit, I've been thinking of doing something super not-cool. Like moving my bestie in and putting her on the lease as my partner. Then after a month or so, the other roommates would move out. Because apparently, since they are already on the lease, they don't have to re-qualify, or some shit.

@silverfox I would hug you, and hand you a drink. My sister is in the classroom 4 of 5 days a week, because her students mostly can not do remote (she's a special ed. teacher).

I do a lot of work/home cycle, when the world is 'normal'. (thanks chronic pain!) When the shutdown started, they wouldn't lay me off, they kept me sitting around, able to do nothing. (I really wanted the layoff. Sleep in, collect the extra u/e, etc) Finally they did lay me off for like a week.

They eventually got me situated, and then the company hired me from the staffing agency at the end of June.

I've been playing a lot of video games. My friends and I do movie nights on Discord, to try and keep socializing.

But I sleep a LOT, and have been watching a lot of Netflix and Food Network. - But not the holiday shows. Just the competitive ones. Chopped, Guy's Grocery Games, Beat Bobby Flay.

So, my roommates want to move out, and I want to stay, and let my bestie (who has been through hell with Covid) move in. She recently got a job in my city, which is remote for now, but eventually will likely go back to face to face.

So she and I filled out applications, and I thought it was just a formality. Our rent would be a little less than a quarter of combined income, I've been here working on 2 years, always pay my rent on time, blah blah blah.

Nope. Because we /each/ separately don't make 4x the rent a month, we're not allowed to do the roommate shuffle. My credit is leaps and bounds better than when I moved in here, and I make decent money for around here. My bestie had her car totaled a week before shutdown, and then with Covid lost both of her jobs. She had to claim bankruptcy, and even WITH that, her credit score is still ... well, it's better than anyone who currently lives in our apartment.

We didn't have these same checkmarks 19 months ago, when we originally got the place. "Oh, we have new management." - I would think that would have at least warranted a message in the email newsletter they send out, but no.

But if I were to move out and leave them, apparently they don't have to do the same process. I call BS.

@waller I never read the books, but the remade TTSS was very... Well, good and all. I hear his books are fantastic.

@zombiegenesis "Oh please, that doesn't even sound like him, the President's an idiot, and you don't sound like an idiot."

@aria I'm sorry someone was an ass enough to put you into this spot. Thank you for doing it.

@derp I'm still pissed that they discontinued/made impossible to find Diet Dr Pepper Cherry. That stuff was bomb.

@auspice said in The Work Thread:

@sunny said in The Work Thread:

I am no longer allowed to intentionally message my boss to make her laugh while she is in another meeting.

Reminds me of that list, the "Scrappy is no longer allowed to..." or whatever it was. >.>

The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US Army

(I think of this list often.)

I had a large chunk of this list memorized when I was with an Army NCO/IC. But the one I will always remember is not singing 'High Speed Dirt' during Airborne missions.

@Aria I second what @Derp has said.

I have just added it to my playlists. Because I've tried to build about a half dozen SPN road trip soundtracks, over the years

I got shown the show during season 4. I'm into horror movies, classic cars, and classic rock, so a friend lured me in to watch it. Been watching ever since.

They look so YOUNG there. (They were, of course). And yeah, you can NOT replace that song. The song they put in seems decent, but it's not the RIGHT SONG.

(I have not seen the second half of season 15. I did think about watching it from beginning to end, but.. I have spoilers to avoid. So binging)